Dáil & Seanad Éireann · 2020-01-21 – Present
Search six years of parliamentary debate. Every speaker shows the party they belonged to on the day they spoke, every vote shows how each member cast it, and everything can be downloaded with a citation. Updated weekly.
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Every division in the Dáil and Seanad — who voted Tá, who voted Níl, and which party they sat for at the time.
Full text of every contribution, filterable by party, chamber and date. Search tips are on the page.
What is covered, what is missing, how the party labels work, and how to search.
Latest votes
The last few recorded votes in either chamber.
Latest debates
Each debate is summarised from its own text — the sentences below were spoken in the chamber, not written by us.
A railway incident unit had originally been set up under the Railway Safety Act 2005 as a unit within the then Railway Safety Commission, which has since been renamed the Commission for Rail…
There is something fundamentally wrong with our housing system, the housing market, the way we treat housing and the way we understand housing. No one is saying that a right to housing and h…
Senator Fitzpatrick asked for a change to the electoral law so that addresses would not be published - I also asked for that yesterday - and suggested that in the interim local authorities c…
I am not across the detail of it in the way Deputy Quinlivan is but, on foot of him raising the issue today, I will make contact with the Minister, Deputy O'Callaghan, and ask that he and An…
Why the party labels matter
Members change party. When that happens, most archives quietly relabel their old speeches with their new party. This one doesn't — a contribution from 2020 carries the party its speaker held in 2020.
Several parties share a colour family — Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, the Greens and Aontú are all green — so the abbreviation, not the colour, is what identifies a party. Colours are chosen for legibility and are not official party branding.